1850 Census AbstractThe group of settlers known as the Randolph Slaves arrived in Miami
County during the summer of 1846, four years before the 1850 Federal Census
was taken. This link provides a list of blacks and mulattos abstracted
from that census of Miami County Ohio.

According to researcher Paul
F. Heinegg, many of the families listed in the 1850 census abstract
were the descendants of mixed-race African Americans who had been free
for many generations before 1850. The Nickens family, for one, was free
in the early 1700s, and the Banks family, descendants of a white woman
who had children by a slave, were free from the late 1600s. For further
information, please click
here.